Background
The Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG) was established in late 2002 as a primarily self-sustaining, multi-disciplinary research institute within the Faculty of Humanities. IPEG has an outward-facing profile and a mission to forge connections between research, policy and practice by positioning itself at the interface between academic and policy/practitioner communities on the contemporary research and policy issues in which its main expertise lies.
Our mission is to forge powerful connections between social scientific research, policy and practice and to provide an independent forum for accessible and intelligent debate on the broad theme of governance: political, economic, international, national, sub-national and local. Since 2005, IPEG has hosted the Manchester Regional Economics Centre.